FOOD PRICES.
AN INCREASE RECORDED. STATISTICIAN’S FIGURES. The latest figures issued by the Government Statistician show an increase in retail food prices. The index number for the three food groups (groceries, meat and dairy produce) stood at 1540 on April 15, an increase of 29 points as compared with the preceding month’s figures, and an increase of 49.93 per cent, over the prices of July, 1914. A fall of 13 points is recorded in the groceries group, due mainly to decreases in the prices of flour and potatoes. An increase of 140 points in the dairyproducts group is due to considerable and all-round increases In the prices of butter and eggs. An increase of 4 points in the meat group is due mainly to a slight rise in the price of pork in most towns, nearly all the other items remaining stationary. The peak of the high prices was reached in December, 1920, when the index number for the three food groups showed an advance of just upon 80 per cent, over the July, 1914, prices.
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Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1922, Page 5
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176FOOD PRICES. Taranaki Daily News, 8 June 1922, Page 5
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